Control: tags 827660 + moreinfo unreproducible On Sun 2016-06-19 06:28:44 -0400, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > As told, this breaks system upgrade, so setting to critical. > > Today I found the following error in upgrade: > monkeysphere (0.38-1) wird eingerichtet ... > Failed running transition script /usr/share/monkeysphere/transitions/0.23 > dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes monkeysphere (--configure): > Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 > zurück > Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: > monkeysphere > > And no further upgrade is possible anymore.
That does indeed bad, but i'm unable to replicate it. Can you help me
better understand how you ran into this?
> I found the source for that. In monkeysphere-authentication setup it
> tries to su to monkeysphere user. But looking into
> /usr/share/monkeysphere/common, there is no "-s ..." specified in su. As
> the user has no usable shell for security measurement, the upgrade
> fails.
>
> Simply adding "-s /bin/sh" here fixes the problem.
I'm surprised to hear this. The monkeysphere user is normally manually
configured to use /bin/bash. I also note on your system that /bin/sh is
linked to /bin/dash, and monkeysphere scripts are not compatible with
dash, for whatever that's worth.
Can you show me the output of:
getent passwd monkeysphere
on your system?
here's what i see on mine:
0 dkg@alice:~$ getent passwd monkeysphere
monkeysphere:x:105:112:monkeysphere authentication
user,,,:/var/lib/monkeysphere:/bin/bash
0 dkg@alice:~$
> Note that this bug is maybe related to #778833 and #635711.
I don't think these are the same. Those bugs were related to issues
around pipeline failures (premature closing of the tail of a pipeline),
and would not have been solved by adding "-s /bin/sh".
Thanks for the report,
--dkg
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